disorient
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Even after “Persona” proceeds to its story, Bergman works to disorient the viewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Kiko always tends to disorient people somehow,” Deanna shares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.
From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
For Myriam Gurba, fog is a condition that disorients and ensnares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
The narration further disorients us by alternating between Marissa’s third-person and Avery’s first-person perspectives.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Perhaps Cin felt that the obliqueness would create tension, but it mainly disorients the reader.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Was he diagnosed with dementia, suffering from memory problems, experiencing hospitalizations or disoriented by new medications?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
She lost the ability to speak, began to vomit violently and became disoriented, as her dad Scott called for an ambulance to take her to hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Lombard was so surprised and disoriented that he likely would have kneeled to a pig farmer.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Ross's murder and the disorienting mission ultimately confused everyone, with the round table being the most random of the series so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
But the overall effect can be disjointed and disorienting.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
It’s also important to remember that grief is disorienting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As if she were coming awake after a disorienting dream, awareness flooded into her.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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